Mailman 3 April 2004 - Mailman-Developers

How to remove X-Confirm-Reading requests from mail headers distributed by Mailman?
by Andrzej Kasperowicz 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

Hi! Is there any way to setup mailman to stop distributing X-Confirm-Reading- To requests sent by some list users? One user has unsubscribed from my list just because it was distributed over the list. Regards ak

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Cloning lists
by Scott Hardy 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Does anyone know if it is possible to clone a list instead of manually creating each one from scratch? Scott Hardy Director Technical Support I-many, Inc. 6th Floor 511 Congress St Portland, ME 04101 Phone: 207-228-2326 Fax: 207-828-0491

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Blocking auto reply e-mails
by Scott Hardy 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Does anyone know how to block things like "out of office" replies from hitting the list? Thanks - Scott

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Virus sent to lists "from" my domain - add password for mods
by Arthur Gibbs 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

Using Mailman 2.1.3, we have had problems with virus-generated messages with spoofed senders getting through to a one-way list. The only 'solution' I have found is to to disallow any non-moderated users or administrators. This forces all messages, even from list admins, to be moderated. Under Privacy options: [Recipient filters], we set "Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting" to 1. And also turned on 'Emergency moderation of all list traffic is enabled' in General Options. However this is not ideal. Back in the dark ages I used Majodomo. As primtive as that program was, these virus messages would not be getting through. Reason? The moderated users had to include a password with each post. Could that password type feature be added? A virus might forge the 'form' and the envelope. But it is aweful hard to forge a good password that also matches that from. Any thoughts?

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Changing the Domain Name
by Don Herring 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

I am trying to set up a list and have been able to get mailman to use the proper external domain name for the email address but not for the links to the unsubscribe page, admin page etc it includes in the emails. Mailman insist on using an internal name server.domain.com instead of the external name lists.domain.com (domain.com is used for example purposes only). Does anyone know how to change this setting?

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Happy Mailman Reminder Day
by Greg Stark 02 Apr '04

02 Apr '04

I forgot to wish all a happy Mailman Reminder Day yesterday. Do these reminders not bother everyone else? Getting a few dozen of these once a month used to really piss me off. I long since sent them to my spam folder but just on principle whoever decided these should be enabled by default ought to be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Subject: Topics Topics: lists.linux.it mailing list memberships reminder lists.vipul.net mailing list memberships reminder mail.kde.org mailing list memberships reminder lists.berlios.de mailing list memberships reminder gnucash.org mailing list memberships reminder lists.bestpractical.com mailing list memberships reminder python.org mailing list memberships reminder www-124.ibm.com mailing list memberships reminder redhat.com mailing list memberships reminder lists.gnucash.org mailing list memberships reminder ethereal.com mailing list memberships reminder postgis.refractions.net mailing list memberships reminder -- greg

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Submitted courier-to-mailman script
by Lindsay Haisley 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I used the mailman patch-manager at sourceforge to upload a list submission handler, courier-to-mailman.py, to handle list submissions and control messages under Courier virtual domains. It's based on Bruce Perens' qmail-to-mailman script, but is updated for mailman v2 and modified to work with the Courier MTA. You may want to include it in the contrib directory of the mailman source distribution. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | |

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Question about changing the "reply-to" address on the mailman list.
by Bradach, Jack 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Hello, I'm the list support person for my university, and I had a question about change I'm considering making to the "mailman" list on our site. We have monthly password reminders enabled by default and the message that gets sent out starts with "DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE... Here's how to unsubscribe if you don't want to be on such and such list." The problem is that a large number of the people every month don't bother reading the mail and instead reply to mailman-owner with "unsubscribe," usually without leaving the original message intact, so I've got to go in and look at the headers and manually remove them from whatever list they were on. My plan is to set the "reply-to" address on mailman to be "DONOTREPLY(a)OREGONSTATE.EDU," so that people sending to the list will just have it uncerimoniously bounced back, hopefully forcing them to reread the message, or setting it to another list which auto-responds with "Read this this time." As far as I know, the only mail that gets sent from the mailman list itself are the monthly reminders and the notices it sends me when people attempt to subscribe to the list. Am I missing something that will break if I do this? Does anyone have a better solution? (Being able to set the address the reminders come from would be a cool feature, btw.) Thanks for the info. - Jack Bradach Jack.Bradach(a)oregonstate.edu Oregon State University jack|w on irc.freenode.net

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